Team Louisiana competes at the 2014 Transplant Games of America

Friday, May 16, 2014 3:31 PM

Life-sized hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys second line with the Gentilly Brass Band and local organ transplant recipients, donors, and their supporters through Ochsner Medical Center on Friday, May 16, 2014. Thirty local organ transplant recipients, donors, and their supporters will travel to Houston July 1. m. 1-15 to compete as team Louisiana at the 2014 Transplant Games of America. With 18 people dying every day waiting for transplants, one organ donor can save anywhere from 9 lives or help 50 people. (Photo by Julia Kumari Drapkin, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)